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the absolute worst thing to ever ever EVER happen to a disordered person, especially those of us with anxiety based disorders (or disorders with a side effect of anxiety) is for our fears and/or unhealthy coping mechanisms to be validated. and in most media where a disordered character takes the focus, writers try to show them Not being validated, to show that the Disorder is Lying and you can get better!! the disorder is lying to you and you need to know that!

but alastor? oh hell no. every fear and maladaptive habit he has is validated over and over, and it just pushes him further into his poor coping mechanisms and one day it's gonna get him. oh it's gonna. analysis posted per the request of my honorable mutual @alastor-insanity, who got to hear all this first. when the dm reply reads "you should post this actually," who am i to refuse the call?

My first Hazbin character redesign! 📻

IT HAD TO BE ALASTOR FIRST. I really liked his canon human form, LOVED the curls, but I can't stand seeing his awful demon design (if I looked like that on Earth and then got sent to Hell and looked like THAT, I would cry), sooo I tried to make it more or less how I'd like to see him.

I wanted to try and make the red and black work in his hair, since I think the main problem for me was that cursed bob and fade, so I definitely had to try a different hairstyle (I LOVE curly hair). I tried to find some inspiration on 1930s haircuts and it's not totally similar, but I did like what I ended up with.

I also incorporated a speaker in his chest, which can function as a music player when he wants to sing or as a speakerphone, to talk when he doesn't want to use his mouth. I still think he can do that neat trick of talking with his mouth closed like in the series when talking to Vox, that was cool.

The microphone is very much inspired by microphones from the 1920s and 30s, around the time he lived. But I added an extra symbol in it for the looks 🗣️ (heyyyy Lucifer's sigil, if any sin is going to fit Alastor's character I agree that pride had to be the one. I guess they have that in common, huh)

I also find it funny to imagine that the little buttons on his suit could be used to change the station or to raise or lower the volume of his voice.

I changed his ears so they actually look like a deer's and gave him a tail because idc about canon.

He's barefoot, but I saw some type of buttoned leather they put on horses' hooves online, and I thought it would be cute to add it to his design to cover his feet a little bit.

That said, the symbols he conjures around himself aren't voodoo because I'm not going to mess with that, especially since I know almost nothing about it. They're radio symbols I searched for online.